Ford's surprise 18th Birthday...

A few months ago i organised with my mum, two brothers, Travis, Jakob and my sister Pipi that we would all fly to Tamworth NSW, to surprise our youngest brother Ford for his 18th birthday… After a bit of organising we managed to get Pip to fly up from Melbourne with my niece and nephew, Jakob and his girl friend Taylor to drive up from Coonamble and Travis and I to meet in Brisbane, hire a car and head to Tamworth.

I meet Trav early tuesday morning in Brisbane, organised the car and in true form headed straight to the beach ;) I've heard so many wonderful things about the Gold Coast and it did not disappoint! clear aqua water, gorgeous white sand and no morning crowds :)

Trav then dragged me back to the car and headed off down the coast towards Tamworth, we made great time even after stopping at the Macadamia Castle just out of Byron Bay mmm mmmmmm…

We spent all Wednesday planning Fords huge surprise. Boxes from Bunnings, which took ages as we had to find some big enough for people to fit in (gosh we must have looked so funny hopping in and out of boxes at the front of Bunnings hehe!) along with cake and party supplies.

Once we were happy with our plan we waited until we could see him get off the school bus then waited and waited inside our boxes for him to come through the door… you can see the full surprise video here soooo sooo funny hehe

//Surprise masterminds!!//

//Birthday boy and his Fordy Frogs Cake//

//happy birthday butthead ;)//

//The five of us reunited at last//

//from left-right, Miabella (my niece) Mum, Jakob, me, Travis, Luca (my nephew) Pipi and Ford :)//

//was a sad good bye saturday morning//

4x4 and away we gooo...

This weekend we headed out with some friends to explore this gorgeous island we live on. We got half way out to Jagged Head but couldn't quite get there as the tide was to high.. we did however stop at one of the creeks and spent an hour or so fishing, collecting shells and generally frolicking in the sun :)

Then we headed off to a different point; Hanging Rock, after getting bogged pretty bad (thanks guys for pulling us through ;), we made it and had a great picnic afternoon, rock climbing and exploring! What a great way to start the school holidays :) 

 

//Jagged Head creek//

 

//Hanging Rock//

                    

//Little Rascal Harry//

   

//Wildflowers//

  

Today actually ended up being a boys day (apart from the 3 mums) trying to get 7 crazy boys ageing from 2-7 to pose for a nice picture is certainly interesting, here is the best and the craziest, i love Harry's face in the crazy one he's like ''whaaat the? :/'' hehe

Do you have fun adventures planned for the school holidays? i'd love to here some :)

xoxo

Hunnah-Lea

Casualties

Poor little Buster (Coopers beloved teddy) was a casualty of our busy weekend and ended up with an under arm tear :( Today was a relax and recover day, so Buster was booked in for day surgery and is now on the mend ;)

xoxo

Hunnah-Lea

Queens birthday

We have had the most sociable weekend celebrating the birthday of our beloved Queen. We celebrated with a mix of new friends, old friends, red friends, blue friends, (sorry the day care is sending me a bit mad with the repetions of books, i think i read Dr Seuss's one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish 18 times on Thursday hehe) any who, on friday we had a BBQ with the local South African crew whom are an absolute blast to hang with. It was also a night of introducing us to home brew liquor, which i can happily report is surprisingly delicious ;) 

 Cooper and i headed into town for a play date on Saturday. Which was great and just what i needed, sometimes its a little challenging as an adult to make friends, especially ones that you have genuine a connection with; apart from having children the same age that is. We really did have fantastic time; a few hour catch up soon turned into a 5 hour chatting sesh! thank you Renee, Irene and Carley for the invite, we can't wait for the next one! i do think i'll have to pack a lunch next time though hehe. 

Aaron played footy that afternoon with the local guys and kicked two winning goals! so proud. That night we headed in again to a late bbq, bomb fire and toasting marshmellows at the Reid's.

Sunday morning we were invited out to Leske pools again with Candice, Andre and the rest of the South African crew; we were all a little tired but still had a great time relaxing by the water, while the boys swam.

After a quick afternoon nap we hopped back in the car to have dinner with the Williams! I met Carley at our little play date, she is a remarkable mother of 6 girls! one who is in Louis' class, a gorgeous set of twins who are Coops age and a little one Harry's age!! we packed the head lamps and after dark trekked through bush to look for woodland animals, which turned out to be mostly spiders as Aaron was a little loud hehe; all in all a great evening and weekend :)

xoxo

Hunnah-Lea

Seeds

Whilst we were in darwin last,we picked up a few little packets of seeds, to hopefully grow a few of our own veggies/herbs, (or at lest just see what we can actually keep alive up here in this humidity.)

We planted beetroot, mint, basil, parsley and two types of spinach. The spinach sprouted up with in two days, so coops is ecstatic about that, i also spotted a little beetroot and basil sprouts today too… can't wait to be self sufficient well sort of hehe

xoxo

Hunnah-Lea